A clip from one of Mark Fisher’s mid-2010s lectures has been hooked back into social-media networks, bringing him more posthumous virality. An account called ‘dailyconceptmedia’ h…

Following the recent prelude… I’m thinking here, initially, of Mark Fisher’s interest in Michael Jackson. His introduction to 2009’s The Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson…

Last week I read Sherry Turkle’s first book, Psychoanalytic Politics, which offers a very helpful overview of Jacques Lacan’s relationship to and influence on May ’68. Having spen…

It’s important … that those engaged in terrorism realise that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destructi…

Arthur Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony: These systems! Elsewhere I will show how they have really never been just what they still could be: namely, systems of presentation (Darstellung). Methods by w…

I watched Alex Garland’s Warfare on my day off, and for whatever reason, it made me join Letterboxd. I’ll probably just throw the occasional brief note up there and see if it can’…

What is (or was) hyperpop? The YouTube commentator debates have raged for years, with most either trying to formalise an errant trajectory, or affirm its un-codifiable nature. For the most part, th…

What does it mean to say that queerness is ontological? In this episode, we’re joined by Billie Cashmore and Xenogothic (Mattie Colquhoun) to explore the philosophical foundations and political ten…

looking for an exit

I’ll be at Cafe OTO on Tuesday 24th June for the third in a series of events hosted by The Wire magazine looking at the impact of AI on contemporary music making. I’ll be presenting on …